Īs for why the change, because the old one was Windows-only - the Qt5 thing works for Mac and Linux as well and allows to do things OS-independently, which is really conceptually superior as we don't need to deal with dedicated Win, Mac and Linux issues. In addition, this was also motivated by the plethora of 3rd party GUI launchers/frontends developed by numerous contributors over the years. Īs of version 2016.4, FGRun has been removed from the official distributions.īackground This article may require cleanup to meet the quality standards of the wiki. The Options which don't work are things like setting scenery / aircraft paths, and initial position, because those interfere with the values the launcher is passing itself. After some number of times the sim will crash. This includes the adding of new features, fixing bugs, and refining existing features.Īs of mid 2016, the Qt UI is now also available at runtime however, this needs a lot of testing, but aircraft can be installed / changed and location adjusted from within the sim. In FlightGear 3.6, it became available for all platforms, and has continued to be developed, enhanced, and refined.Īs of May 2016, the Qt launcher is under active development. It was released with FlightGear 3.4 as a Mac-only feature.Īfter FlightGear 3.4, it was decided to that this temporary Mac-only launcher would be developed into a replacement for FGRun and that it would become part of the plan for updating the FlightGear user interface.
He added a simple built-in launcher using Qt, run before the main window would be created. James Turner started work on a solution for the then-upcoming 3.4 release. Unfortunately, one of the frameworks the old FlightGear Mac launcher relied upon, called Rub圜ocoa, was removed, making it incompatible with OS X Yosemite. In October 2014, Apple released OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Preferences can be reset to their default values by holding down the Alt key while starting the launcher. the default preferences location on Linux (usually ~/.config/FlightGear/nf).Older versions make use of the default location used by Qt: In FlightGear 2016.2 and later, the preferences are stored in $FG_HOME//FlightGear.ini. Specifying the TerraSync download directory manually has, thus, become unnecessary. In the Target box under the Shortcut tab, add -console at the end and click OK.Īs of FlightGear 2016.2, the location used by the launcher to store downloaded aircraft and TerraSync scenery can be specified in the Add-ons tab. To enable console display on Windows, right-click on the FlightGear shortcut on the Desktop and click Properties. Addons page of Qt launcher in FG 2018.2 on Windows 10Įnabling console display on Windows systems
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